Seattle woman might not get to marry doomed warehouse

A Seattle activist known as Babylonia Aivaz plans on getting married this Sunday. Her fiance? A doomed warehouse on Capitol Hill.

Aivaz is planning on marrying the warehouse in a weekend ceremony as a statement against the warehouse’s slated demolition. An apartment complex will be built in its place, and Aivaz is mourning the loss of a place she and other protesters have inhabited for more than a month.

She writes on Facebook that the apartments will “disintegrate our unique creative culture and render our neighborhood even more unaffordable.” She’d like the site to remain open as “community space.”

More about why Aivaz is wants to marry the warehouse at 10th Avenue and Union Street:

The moment we entered the warehouse we became a true community. We became self-motivated. We worked cooperatively. We thought only of others well-being. We explored 36,000 square feet like children, giggling and dreaming at the possibility of all that space. We played with conveyer belts, riding up and down. The kind you always want to sit on in the airport luggage dispensers. We strung up lights. We adapted toilets. We removed pounds and pounds of necessary building materials. We fed 200 people. We dreamed. We dreamed. We dreamed.

Now, it looks like Aivaz might have to move quickly if she wants to have a ceremony before the building is demolished.